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A Spanish court has ruled that the body of former Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos, who died last month in Barcelona (northeast Spain), should be handed over to his widow for repatriation and burial in Angola. The fate of the former head of state’s remains has been at the center of a legal battle between his widow Ana Paula… Read More

A Spanish court has ruled that the body of former Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos, who died last month in Barcelona (northeast Spain), should be handed over to his widow for repatriation and burial in Angola. The fate of the former head of state’s remains has been at the center of a legal battle between his widow Ana Paula… Read More

The leaders of “Yerewolo – Debout sur les remparts”, a Malian civil society organisation, reputedly close to the junta and campaigning for the removal of foreign forces present in the country, welcome the complete departure of French Barkhane forces in Mali. After nine years of French involvement, the group considers the Barkhane military operation in the Sahel and Sahara to… Read More

A TikTok user is being investigated after posting a video on the app allegedly threatening to kill patients, Ghana’s Nursing and Midwifery Council said. In a video which has gone viral on social media, the nursing student who appeared in a nursing uniform said (speaking in Waala, one of the popular languages in Upper West Region), “she will kill any… Read More

The final results of a controversial referendum granting unchecked powers to the office of Tunisia’s President Kais Saied showed 94.6 percent of votes in favour, the electoral authority said Tuesday. Voters overwhelmingly approved the new constitution, the electoral board said, officially announcing definitive results from the July 25 poll. The charter was approved by just over 2.6 million people, the… Read More

The United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) says it has cleared 25 anti-personnel mines from Pigi County in South Sudan, making the area safe to inhabit. Last week, Sara Beysolow Nyanti, the Deputy Special Representative of the UN Peacekeeping mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), visited Canal in Pigi County to get a first-hand account of the people living here. She… Read More

Thousands of people gathered in the South African town of Marikana on Tuesday to mark a decade since dozens of striking workers were killed in the worst act of police violence since the end of apartheid. On August 16, 2012, 34 people were killed and 78 injured when police opened fire on platinum mine workers who had gathered on a… Read More

Kenyan opposition figure Raila Odinga said Tuesday the presidential election results declared by the country’s electoral chairman were “null and void.” Speaking one day after Deputy President William Ruto was declared the winner, Odinga told a crowd in Nairobi: “What we saw yesterday was a travesty and a blatant disregard for the constitution and the laws of Kenya by (Wafula)… Read More

Iraqi artisan Abdel Rahman is a master tambourine maker. He has been in this business for almost 30 years. But now the renowned artisan fears that mass-produced tambourines are replacing the human craft. “Making tambourines is an old traditional craft in Iraq and Kirkuk. Yet, nobody is working in it anymore. Now, the profession has turned commercial and the parts… Read More

One the day after the Kenyan presidential election results were announced many supporters of William Ruto in the town of Eldoret were celebrating his victory in the presidential race. Observers claim that Ruto’s victory marked a break with tradition in that he fought the campaign along economic terms and not ethnic lines. Defeated candidate Raila Odinga announced that he would… Read More